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Best content in LearningwithComputers | Diigo - GroupsWed, 14 Apr 2010 15:05:18 -0000Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:05:18 -0000A look at the technology culture divide | eSchoolNews.comhttp://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/03/31/a-look-at-the-technology-culture-divide
<p><strong>Comments:</strong><ul><li>Article discussing the technology culture divide between students and their teachers and its implications for rethinking how we teach. - <small><a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/content/user/tech4teachers" title="View Noelle Kreider's content in group">Noelle Kreider</a></small></li></ul></p><p><strong>Highlights and Sticky Notes:</strong><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Today’s students represent the first generation to grow up with this new technology.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">While educators may see students every day, they do not necessarily understand their students’ habits, expectations, or learning preferences–this has resulted in a technology cultural divide.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Students are very comfortable with technology and generally become frustrated when policy, rules, and restrictions prevent them from using technology.&nbsp;</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Educators must relinquish the idea of being all-knowing and replace that concept with an attitude of being a facilitator, knowing that the world of information is just a “click” away.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Traditional schools, generally staffed primarily with Digital Immigrants, often provide very little technology interaction compared to the digital world in which students are actually living.&nbsp; Digital Natives can pay attention in class, but they choose not to pay attention, because in reality, they are bored with instructional methods that Digital Immigrants use.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Today’s Digital Native students have developed new attitudes and aptitudes as a result of their technology environment.&nbsp; Although these characteristics provide great advantages in areas such as the students’ abilities to use information technology and to work collaboratively, they have created an imbalance between students’ learning environment expectations and Digital Immigrants’ teaching strategies and policies, which students find in schools today.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Teacher training programs in the area of technology will be paramount in the success of the Digital Native.</div></div></p><p><div class="content"><div class="annInner">Twenty-first century educators must begin to answer these questions: Do the educational resources provided fit the needs and preferences of today’s learners?&nbsp; Will linear content give way to simulations, games, and collaboration?&nbsp; Do students’ desires for group learning and activities imply rethinking the configuration and use of space in classrooms and libraries?&nbsp; What is the material basis of digital literacy? What is different in a digital age?&nbsp; What are kids doing already and what could they be doing better, and more responsibly, if we learned how to teach them differently?
Addressing these questions will contribute toward bridging the gap of the technology cultural divide and result in schools where all students have greater potential to achieve academically.</div></div></p><p><p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/content/tag/vision">vision</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/content/tag/%22digital+divide%22">digital divide</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/content/tag/%22digital+immigrants%22">digital immigrants</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/content/tag/%22digital+natives%22">digital natives</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/content/tag/%22technology+culture+divide%22">technology culture divide</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/content/tag/teaching">teaching</a>, <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/content/tag/learning">learning</a></p><p><strong>by:</strong> <a href="https://groups.diigo.com/group/learningwithcomputers/content/user/tech4teachers" title="View Noelle Kreider's content in group">Noelle Kreider</a></p>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:05:18 -0000